Monday, 14 August 2023

Atoms In The Same Volume

Satan's World, XI.

Falkayn reflects on the dangers of hyperspatial travel near a star. They include:

"...a brush with a solid body, or a moderately dense gas, producing a nuclear explosion as atoms tried to occupy the same volume." (p. 439)

We have encountered this danger before both in Wells and in Anderson:

Objections

"All Possible Dimensions"

Time Travelling And Space Jumps

Temporal Collision

Good night.

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3 comments:

  1. S.M. Stirling15 August 2023 at 21:36

    Busy!

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  2. S.M. Stirling16 August 2023 at 02:31

    Ooops, the above was aimed at the -previous- message!

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  3. Sean M. Brooks16 August 2023 at 15:02

    Kaor, Paul!

    I wonder, if there's ever a FTL (or other than light?) drive, whether such risk as hypothesized here, will turn out to be real? Anderson's suggestions seems very plausible.

    Ad astra! Sean

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